i am just a little bit pissed, but not much :P.. was hoping for stress free grinding 15$ at 50$+/hour, now gonna have to mix (abi will be <10$..., and i am always scared of losing flips at higher stakes and winning at lower ;d) or switch to 6max that i played 20-50times less and dont feel comfortable at bubbles (HM has to update ev before i can even think about it)

By additional changes do you mean adding more buyins? Or could taking some away that youve already added count as additional changes?

give us 15$ 27man turbo trial run too, 15$ 18man runs lotssssss anway!!!

+1

When I go to Supercuts, they give me a card that gets stamped every haircut I get, and the 10th haircut is free!

Maybe a player-retention promotion at the micro/lower stakes where every "x" number of games you play at a certain buyin/rake, you get a free SNG ticket...

...but, you don't get to use them til the start of the next cycle/month. So someone plays a few hundred SNGs, loses the $100 they deposited, and decides "screw it, I'm tired of poker for a while."

At the start of the next month, they have 4-5 free SNG tickets sitting in their account, and may decide poker is good entertainment after all, and put in a number of hours and possibly $$ they otherwise would have spent doing something else.

Heck, you could even slightly increase the rake in applicable SNGs to pay for it (matching the $EV players are expected to get back).

this is a good idea... the put it in the account next cycle (month?/week? stars probably knows the interval most recs are willing to redeposig) thing, not so much the increase rake thing

reduce BoP if you need to pay for it...


Thought a bit about it: the "play 10 get one free" is unsustainable, as it would be in excess of 100% RB, play 100 get one free is not very appealing, maybe "play x and qualify for bonus y [which needs to be cleared before being released]" the bonus itself might be SNG tickets... you would get the bonus rather easily and the clearing requirement would be again a bit more volume than what you put in to get it etc...

Totally alter the buy-in imo. Make it a $20-$25 27 man.

+1

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bring the 45's 180's leaderboard!!!

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Average game length: 1 minute and 8 seconds

So day 2 of $30 9 man hypers, traffic still sucks.

Itll prob take a week or two to pick up. Its not like all the rec players have been watching this thread and know theyre here. Theyll stumble onto them one day, get hooked and then look for them in the future. But i wouldnt huge traffic ever. I think 9man turbos 30+ have been slow to load for a while now too.

Well done Stars! Thanks.

where is 3.5$ 9max ?

FWIW, the $30 6-max hypers got quite a bit more traffic as time went on (though that might have been due just to more grinders). Be interesting to see if traffic picks up at all after several weekends+

Jackpot SNGs, displayed in the lobby in green. I.e. $6.52 + $.48 + $1 with the $1 distributed back entirely to the players.

The $1 goes to instant win prizes you can get when you win the SNG, hit quads or a straight flush, lose a bad beat, etc.

they should put mark "new" when they open new tipe of sng's like it was few years ago

This is so awesome, pstars should just hire bbfg kids a genius

I think the really cool thing about BBFG's lottery suggestion is he says in there, Take this concept even further, and make it, 10 lottery tickets for the first 50 games ( 1 lottery ticket per 5 sng) and then once every 50 sngs after.

Create a new graphic for lotteries in cashier; -people love the green bar in cashier, ( i know i do ) it's fun to earn rewards, you could add another tracker for "next sng lottery ticket"

I think this would draw a ton of new players to play at least 50 sngs a month, and some may get into a routine where they think, i gotta get my 50 sng's in this month to get my "easy" lottery tickets. If this was promoted in the news, it would easily draw new players to sit and goes, you have to remember guys, a lot of people don't even know what a sit and go is, but when there is a huge promotion in the news that says "Play Sit and Gos, earn lottery tickets" even if a bunch of new players don't know wtf a sng is they will know what a lottery ticket is and will likely be interested.

I guarantee you the lottery thing would bring in new players, and the bop improvements are neat and smooth out a fairly broken system. That may not be the answer to bop's current problems but it is better then any other suggestion I've seen, most people are just complaining about it. (right fully so)

Yea agree, people aren't really going to notice these new games right away, especially as PS isn't advertising them . I've noticed a small pool of fish in the $100 6m turbos that seem to play 1-2 at a time, haven't seen that many guys just play 1 random game.

Overall the $100 6m look like I expect them to be, lot of 5 and 6 reg games, have gotten maybe 6-7 4 reg games in so far in my small sample on my 1st day back on PS.

I accidentally regged in 2 $100s the first day they were introduced and both had 2 fish in them. I am really surprised regs are actually mixing these in while 20+ tabling though. A good player that is only playing a few 100s is going to be able to exploit that.

+1 Perfectly explained.

i dont understand either why there is no 9man 15$ hyper
traffic at 30$ isn't enough, again bad decision....